CHINA: Return of Wu?

As the Chinese Government's officials at Peiping and thereabouts continued to
kowtow to a few Japanese brigades last week, much of North China seemed
to have been brought under the rule of Tokyo without a fight and by sheer bullying
bluff. Suddenly, however,
there was plenty of fighting at Peiping last week and behind it loomed
the dramatic shadow of "The Scholar War Lord," Wu Pei-fu.

Amid the corrupt peasant-born super-bandits who ruled various parts of
China as "war lords" ten years ago, Marshal Wu Pei-fu was the one
old-fashioned Confucian scholar. A...